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" The perfidy of Albion : "
Norman Hampson.
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558112
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b386887
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Norman Hampson
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The perfidy of Albion : : French perceptions of England during the French Revolution\ Norman Hampson.
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Basingstoke : Macmillan,, 1998.
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(xiii, 181 pages)
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0230389694
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: 9780230389694
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Introduction -- The View from Across the Channel -- The Future Revolutionaries -- The First Crisis of the Revolution -- New France and Old England -- The Road to War -- The Demonization of Pitt -- The Shaping of Things to Come -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Hampson describes how the French Revolution, which seemed to promise an era of Franco-British partnership, led to an even more bitter estrangement between the two nations. Both the British and French peoples saw the revolution of 1789 as offering the prospect of a new Franco-British partnership. These hopes soon foundered on old suspicions and new ideological divergences. The result was to confirm the traditional",,,,,"Hampson describes how the French Revolution, which seemed to promise an era of Franco-British partnership, led to an even more bitter estrangement between the two nations. Both the British and French peoples saw the revolution of 1789 as offering the prospect of a new Franco-British partnership. These hopes soon foundered on old suspicions and new ideological divergences. The result was to confirm the traditional perception of each nation's own identity, centred on the state in France and the people in Great Britain. It also substituted French republican principles for British parliamentary ones as the inspiration of European radicals.Hampson describes how the French Revolution, which seemed to promise an era of Franco-British partnership, led to an even more bitter estrangement between the two nations. Both the British and French peoples saw the revolution of 1789 as offering the prospect of a new Franco-British partnership. These hopes soon foundered on old suspicions and new ideological divergences. The result was to confirm the traditional perception of each nation's own identity, centred on the state in France and the people in Great Britain. It also substituted French republican principles for British parliamentary ones as the inspiration of European radicals.Describing how the French Revolution, which seemed to promise an era of Franco-British partnership yet led to an even more bitter estrangement between the two nations, this study illuminates late 18th-century nationalism and xenophobia.,"Hampson describes how the French Revolution, which seemed to promise an era of Franco-British partnership, led to an even more bitter estrangement between the two nations. Both the British and French peoples saw the revolution of 1789 as offering the prospect of a new Franco-British partnership. These hopes soon foundered on old suspicions and new ideological divergences. The result was to confirm the traditional perception of each nation's own identity, centred on the state in France and the people in Great Britain. It also substituted French republican principles for British parliamentary ones as the inspiration of European radicals.Hampson describes how the French Revolution, which seemed to promise an era of Franco-British partnership, led to an even more bitter estrangement between the two nations. Both the British and French peoples saw the revolution of 1789 as offering the prospect of a new Franco-British partnership. These hopes soon foundered on old suspicions and new ideological divergences. The result was to confirm the traditional perception of each nation's own identity, centred on the state in France and the people in Great Britain. It also substituted French republican principles for British parliamentary ones as the inspiration of European radicals.Describing how the French Revolution, which seemed to promise an era of Franco-British partnership yet led to an even more bitter estrangement between the two nations, this study illuminates late 18th-century nationalism and xenophobia.
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Electronic books; History
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